digital archiving & open access what is it? why do it? how does it work? getting started...
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DIGITAL ARCHIVING &OPEN ACCESS
• What is it? Why do it?• How does it work?• Getting started
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARYMICHELLE HARRISON | FACULTY LIAISON LIBRARIAN
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Open Access - OA
Open AccessWhat is Open Access?Unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals and other resourcesWhat can Universities do to promote Open Access?• Publish your research articles in Open
Access journals e.g. DOAJ• Deposit your pre-print and post print in
an institutional archive• Consider starting an Open Access
journal in your area of specialization
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Sydney eScholarhip: what is it?
• Research papers• Reports• Conference papers• Poster presentations• Dissertations• eBooks• Handbooks• etc….
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What is it?
› Permanent online storage of scholarly material
› Freely available to anyone in the world
› Highly visible to Google
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More reasons to do it
› Traditional metrics (e.g. h-index)
› Altmetrics
(tweets/media/policy)
From Sydney eScholarship
Enhance your research impact..
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Check OA policy for a journal
Digital archiving & copyright for authors: http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/ses/copyright.php
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Not yet published?
› Future use?
› Author addendum
› Don’t sign your rights away!